{"id":13400,"date":"2013-02-15T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13400"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:42:55","slug":"video-10-ton-meteor-streaks-through-the-sky-in-russia-hits-injuring-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/02\/15\/video-10-ton-meteor-streaks-through-the-sky-in-russia-hits-injuring-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 10-ton meteor streaks through the sky in Russia, hits injuring 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Dallas Morning News<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The Dallas Morning News article\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/local-news\/20130215-video-10-ton-meteor-streaks-through-the-sky-in-russia-hits-injuring-500.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Video: 10-ton meteor streaks through the sky in Russia, hits injuring 500<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 10 tons streaked at supersonic speed over Russia&#8217;s Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured some 500 people and frightened countless more.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement that the meteor over the Chelyabinsk region entered the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered about 18-32 miles above ground.<\/p>\n<p>The fall caused explosions that broke glass over a wide area. The Emergency Ministry says more than 500 people sought treatment after the blasts and that 34 of them were hospitalized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two more videos and a slide show are available in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> article <a title=\"The Wall Street Journal article\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324162304578305163574597722.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meteorite Hits Russia, Causing Panic<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, were the Mayans and their calendar just off by one year?\u00a0 Actually maybe off by only a couple of months?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Morning News has the story Video: 10-ton meteor streaks through the sky in Russia, hits injuring 500. A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 10 tons streaked at supersonic speed over Russia&#8217;s Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured some 500 people and frightened countless more. The Russian Academy of Sciences said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13403,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions\/13403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}